On June 2, Scott Rothkopf, the director of the Whitney Museum, sent an email announcing his “suspension” of the 50-year-old Independent Study Program (ISP) to a select number of its alumni. Citing “a gap in leadership,” he officially canceled admissions for the 2025–26 cohort, which had already been inexplicably halted for two months, even after final interviews. Within that same hour, Sara Nadal-Melsió, ISP’s Associate Director, was informed that her position had been “terminated.” All of this came two weeks after she publicly released a statement protesting the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance,” an expression of transnational solidarity with the Palestinian people that was part of an ISP curatorial show. “If this sounds messy and confusing,” Nadal-Melsió writes in an opinion for Hyperallergic, “You are not alone. It is by design.” Read it at the link in bio. . . . #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyISP #Palestine #Censorship #Op...